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"Lies, damned lies and…"
In the IT industry, vendors often misuse and mischaracterize statistics — or leave facts aside all together – in an effort to make offerings seem competitive or innovative when they aren’t.
IBM invests more than any other IT firm in enterprise innovation. Because of that commitment, we believe it's important to address misrepresentations and lies head-on.
The following will help you separate fact from fiction as you make decisions in a market awash in big claims. Come back often to learn more as IT solutions evolve so you can make the most informed decisions to solve your business problems.
Corrections to Sun's, Oracle's and HP's latest claims:
- Oracle continues to run ads in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere comparing a Sun SPARC computer to a previous generation IBM Power 595 benchmark result. Oracle claims the Sun computer has a seven-time faster response time, while IBM's "fastest" computer consumes six-times more energy.
- Oracle announced in October 2009 that Oracle and Sun SPARC SOLARIS achieved World Record TPC-C Performance beating IBM's best results on DB2 with Power 595 Server.
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David Davidian
Senior IT Architect
David Davidian creates client-facing technology presentations and internal technical intelligence briefs addressing competitive hardware, software, performance claims and comparative CPU architectures. Davidian has several software and hardware patents.
David's blog - Views on Competitor Claims & Advice on Migration
On his blog, Views on Competitor Claims and Advice on Migration, David addresses issues from CPU architectures and performance to security and virtualization.
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Elisabeth Stahl
Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing
Elisabeth Stahl is Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing for the IBM Systems and Technology Group and has been working in systems performance for over 25 years.
Elisabeth's blog - Benchmarking and systems performance
This blog is for the open exchange of ideas relating to systems performance and benchmarking.
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